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Move over Margaret Mahy page 2

Climbers held hostage page 3

Sam Smoothy from Cromwell (pictured above at the World Heli Challenge on Friday) cuts a new line on Mount Albert above Lake Wanaka during the Extreme Day. He was captured in action by local photographer Antony Hansen, using a 400mm lens. Antony is one of only five photographers competing at this year’s photography awards. Each photographer has submitted one image for each of the five categories. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony tonight.

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Final hoops night page 12

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Mismatched rugby gets ugly Tim Brewster The Upper Clutha under16 r ug by t e am i s s tr o ngly considering forfeiting games next season to avoid playing teams above their age range following last weekend’s violent incident with an older Cromwell side. An ugly brawl between the two teams has been deemed serious enough to warrant police involvement and an official complaint to the ORFU against the Cromwell players and coach, Mark Ludeman.

UC under 16 coach Mike Mason said the team has had a difficult time organising fixtures with teams of the same age with only three others in the country division and often compete against under 18 players. Wanaka has the

longest distance to travel in the schoolboy competition and due to funding cuts to junior rugby because of the ORFU’s recent financial difficulties, travelling costs are no longer

playing in the under 11 age group and said the mismatch of age groups is extremely unfair on the younger players and is very bad for their confidence. “Some of the

Some of the boys are a bit shell-shocked.

Some of them are only 14 and they certainly don’t go out on the field to fight 18 year olds. subsidised so other teams refuse to travel.

If the situation is unchanged next season, the team will forfeit games against some of the older sides as the younger players are at risk of injury, with some teams “really rough on them,” Mike said. He has been involved with many of the players since they were

boys are a bit shell-shocked.

Some of them are only 14 and they certainly don’t go out on the field to fight 18 year olds,” Mike said Mike and co-coach and manager, Phil Gilchrist, met with the team on Tuesday night to discuss the incident and to try to find what had started the fight which resulted

and referred to Youth Aid. Upper Clutha had lost the past two games with Cromwell, but this time they were winning ending up with a final score of 24-10. “That didn’t help the situation,” Mike said.

“We certainly don’t think the whole club is like that.

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with Cromwell, there are just a couple of bad influences in there that need to be sorted out,” Upper Clutha junior rugby president Dean Millar said. Due to a lack of other teams in their age group, the UC under16s have had to compete against older teams which is very unsatisfactory, he said. “There have been a number of injuries, but this type of aggression was quite different,” he said.

Cromwell RFC president, Jason Clark did not wish to comment on the incident further as a statement was being released, other than to say the team was an under 17 side not an under 18 side as was reported in other media.

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Ugly rugby

Fokker Friendship for museum Wanaka’s National Transport & Toy Museum has acquired a Fokker Friendship aircraft from Air New Zealand in Christchurch.

“The aircraft is one of our newest acquisitions that will preserve a part of New Zealand’s aviation history.” Museum curator Jason Rhodes said. “Once the plane is reassembled onsite it will be accessible to visitors who will be able to walk through the aircraft.”

The aircraft, built by the Dutch company Fokker, is a Rolls Royce turbo prop plane that was in service from 1960 until the late 1980s with New Zealand’s domestic carrier.

Going to America Wanaka had a winner at this year’s National Country Music Awards in Hamilton on Saturday.

Jody Direen was the Horizon Award winner and will compete at the Global Artists Awards in Nashville USA. Nelson musician, Aly Cook, won Best Female Country Artist, Auckland’s Trevor V Stevens won Best Male and the Best Group Award was won by Southland duo The Heartleys.

Continued from page 1 The club later issued a statement acknowledging there had been an incident, and said: “The CRFC is still gathering information as part of its own investigation into the incident, which will be forwarded to the Otago Rugby Football Union.” MAC schoolboy rugby coordinator

George Gilchrist scores for the winning Upper Clutha under 16 side against Cromwell last Saturday.

Hamish Crosbie said the mismatch of teams this year has been a real problem for the under 14 and under 16 teams.

Last year $50,000 was allocated to subsidise travel for the younger teams, but this year there is nothing. “Rugby is the only sport that plays Otago wide. Town and country need to work together so junior rugby doesn’t die.”

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Move over Margaret Mahy Caroline Harker Mount Aspiring College student Madi Mulqueen, 11, has made it to the final of a nationwide children’s short story writing competition which attracted more than 1000 entrants.

This is the first writing competition Madi (pictured) has been in.

Her story is called Zoo Escape and is set in Paris. Madi has never been to a zoo in New Zealand, but has been to one in Sydney. Madi

is interested in being a writer of children’s books when she grows up. Her

has contributed to her success,” she said.

The competition is run

Madi is a natural writer and hard worker. It is the combination of both that has contributed to her success.

Rutherford programme teacher Jilly O’Brien said she is not surprised with Madi’s achievement.

“Madi is a natural writer and hard worker. It is the combination of both that

by Penguin Books and the Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust. It is being judged

by Dawn McMillan, Victoria M Azaro and David Hill.

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Rates increase more than anticipated Rates in the lakes district will increase by 3.78 percent rather than the anticipated 2.68 percent during the 2012 – 2013 year, according to QLDC acting chief executive and finance manager Stewart Burns. Stewart put the change down to a lower-than-expected growth in capital values and the number of rateable properties. The first assessment will be due from ratepayers in September.

Speed limits on several local roads will probably change from March next year, subject to further council consultation and the decision of a panel established to hear any submissions made. The panel will include councillors Jude Battson, Trevor Tattersfield and Simon Stamers-Smith.

Proposed changes include: the extension of the current 50kphspeedlimitonCardrona

The Otago Community Trust has given $118,000 to 25 organisations across Otago in July. Wanaka groups Kahu Youth Trust and Aspiring Avalanche Dogs were supported in this round of funding.

Kahu Youth received $3000 to assist with the cost of holding youth activities and events this year. Aspiring Avalanche Dogs received a boost to its fundraising efforts grant of $4000 to help purchase a skidoo for use in transporting dogs around the mountain while in training and emergency situations.

Valley Road to south of West Meadows Drive, and the remaining section of Cardrona Valley Road that is currently 80kph to 70kph.

A limit of 70kph over the first 200 m of Orchard Road from the Cardrona Valley Road intersection, a 70kph speed limit on Studholme Road and an extension of the 70kph speed limit on Ballantyne Road to

Riverbank Road.

A speed limit of 80kph for all roads in the Mount Barker area with the following boundaries: State Highway 6, Riverbank Road and the Criffel Range.

A change to 70kph along the entire section of Aubrey Road that currently has a speed limit of 80kph, and a 70kph on Outlet Road to match Aubrey Road.

Busted busking Caroline Harker

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Sometimes called Buskers Square – the empty area outside Kai Whakapai - is an underused resource, according to some local music lovers.

Heading the list is DJ Sam Hudson who has performed in the area many times but has recently been moved along by Lakes Environmental.

Having been told she needed a buskers permit, Sam made enquiries and realised she wouldn’t get one.

“A full-on DJ set-up

is not appropriate for a busking permit,” Lakes Environmental Regulatory and Enforcement team leader Anthony Hall told the Wanaka Sun. “Loud amplified music will never qualify.” Anthony said the area was not designed for busking.

Sam said when she has performed there she mainly plays Kiwi music and doesn’t play it too loudly. She said she would be happy to have a permit which limited the volume of her music, if one was available. “No-one has ever complained to me,” she said. “Lots of people come

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and talk and say how much they enjoy it, and that it brings the town centre alive.

We were just trying to create that vibrancy for Wanaka on a Sunday afternoon.” Sam said when the enforcement officer closed he down he called her a “Kai type” and said there was a place for her down by the skate park.

Generally Buskers Square (not its real name according to Anthony) is a large, empty space.BeatsSundaySessions was the only regular thing happening there outside festivals and events.

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Flights still on hold Tim Brewster No definite date has been set by Eagle Air for the return of scheduled air services between Wanaka and Christchurch. The fleet of 18 Beechcraft 1900D aircraft used for the flights were grounded last Tuesday after cracks were discovered in the tail area of an aircraft.

The company has now reported 11 of their aircraft fully cleared and back in service after additional inspections were made in consultation with the manufacturer.

Attempts to contact Eagle Air general manager Carrie Hurihanganui were declined by the

company with the Wanaka Sun directed to Air New Zealand publicity spokesperson, Brigitte Ransom. She

larger plane such as a Dash 8 enabling a greater number of discounted seats. Her reply did not address the questions but

Flights were grounded last Tuesday after cracks were discovered in the tail area of an aircraft. was asked by email for a definite date of resumption of services, what passenger numbers had been like, whether there were financial difficulties affecting the service and whether there were any plans for any schedule changes or a

reiterated what she had written in an earlier press release which said: “We are currently working through the schedule adjustments for next week which are expected to include the resumption of some flights into and out of Wanaka.”

Golf club sub-lease declined The Council has turned down a proposed sub-lease which would have resulted in a mini-golf facility on reserve land on the corner of Ballantyne Road and Stratford Terrace. The sub-lease would have been between Wanaka Golf Club and Wanaka Fun Park. The site is reserve land currently used by the public for free putting and pitching practise.

Several reasons were given including the council could be seen to be aiding

a business which has competition from other mini-golf businesses.

Other reasons included the ‘need for extra caution’ as the reserve is opposite a site approved for a new police station, and a council policy stating that groups should not profit from sub-letting council land.

The golf club wanted to lease the land to generate additional income so it could maintain and upgrade the golf facility without increasing green fees.

Climbers held hostage Caroline Harker Two Wanaka mountain guides and their party of eight climbers were taken hostage by a group of 40 armed tribesmen wearing nothing but penis gourds in West Papua on Sunday. Mike Roberts and Lydia Bradey (pictured) and their Adventure Consultants group are now safe, but it was a frightening experience, according to Mike. “The warriors surrounded us armed with machetes and bows and arrows,” he said. “They were Dani tribesmen who are known to be aggressive and unpredictable.” He said the company’s local agent who negotiated with the tribesmen was very scared. “There was a lot of very aggressive language and gesturing between our staff and the militia mobsters,” he said.

“Guerrilla negotiations then began and we were detained for about four hours, our passports

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confiscated and a blockade was placed on our being able to continue to Carstensz [the mountain].

They demanded the extraordinary sum of one billion rupiah [almost NZ$131,000] for our being present on ‘their’ land.

was well beyond the realms of normal tribal negotiations. He said the tribesmen are part of a militia group fighting for Western Papuan independence from Indonesia. This combined with centuries old tribal

It’s very hard to have a rational negotiation with someone wearing a penis gourd.

Eventually we negotiated a settlement of [NZ$4350] on the proviso that we would leave.”

The party made their way back to Bali where they started the trip.

Included in the group were New Zealanders Christine Burke from Timaru, who lives in Australia, and Hazel Nash who lives in Britain.

While expeditions to Carstensz normally involve police and tribal permissions and pay-offs, Mike said their experience

and family conflicts and recent government elections had created a volatile situation. “To have continued [with the expedition] after this intense and intimidating encounter would have been to take a great risk,” Mike said.

The purpose of the expedition was to climb the Cartensz Pyramid, one of the world’s seven highest summits. It was an experienced group: eight had climbed Everest and for four of them, including

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Mike, Cartensz would have been the seventh of their summits.

The seven summits also include Mount Everest, Denali in Alaska, Aconcaqua in Argentina, Elbrus in Russia, Vinson Massif in Antarctica and Kilimanjaro in Africa.

Adventure Consultants CEO Guy Cotter said his company has been going to Carensz for many years and had never had an incident of this scale, although other company’s have. He was glad everyone was safe.

“It’s very hard to have a rational negotiation with someone wearing a penis gourd,” he said. Adventure Consultants has had times where they couldn’t climb other mountains due to political instability including Everest (from Tibet) which is now closed to foreigners, Aconcaqua (currently okay) and Elbrus. “Mountains are often on borders so that can create problems” he said.

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Wood a winner in Wanaka

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Caroline Harker A zero-energy house designed by a Wanaka company and Rippon Hall (pictured) are both finalists in the New Zealand Timber Design Awards.

The house is made of interlocking insulated panels imported by Bruce James and is a finalist in the Canterbury Rebuild Innovation section which looks for ‘the most effective use of timber in architectural and engineering terms’.

Bruce said the house is made of structural panels composed of a sandwich assembly of wood and plastic. “The facings are made of 11mm wood and the fillings are polystyrene,” he said.

“The panels replace all timber framing and makes building 50 percent faster.

They are prefabricated so they are easy to construct.

The panels are airtight and provide very good insulation.” Bruce worked with architect Rod Yeoman to design the house.

The judges said the panels ‘are the ideal solution for sustainable

section –which looked for ‘innovative use of timber resulting in a distinctive visual impact.’ The hall is located at Rippon Vineyard. The main structure is rammed earth – with a timber roof and

Wood as a construction material offers a level of versatility and texture that can be inherently challenging to today’s designers. construction in New Zealand, a country prone to earthquakes, high wind and extreme weather conditions; one with a relatively unskilled construction labour force and a desire for more sustainable housing’.

Rippon Hall, designed by Rafe Maclean Architects of Wanaka, is a finalist in the Commercial Architecture

timber lining made from larch (Larix deciduas) milled from a plantation on the property. The floor in the main hall is recycled rimu and the interstorey floor is laminated 65mm macrocarpa with NZ Oregon beams underneath.

Judges said the timber created ‘a calming and warming contrast to the

rammed earth and in-situ concrete – while adding a direct but subtle link to the terroir of Rippon’. Wood is also used to heat the hall - a boiler using wood sourced from wilding pines on the property warms the radiators.

The 2012 awards attracted nearly 100 entries across nine categories, and the winners will be announced on October 9. NZWood CEO Jane Arnott said this is the 30th year the awards have been held. “Wood as a construction material offers a level of versatility and texture that can be inherently challenging to today’s designers” she said. “Understanding the beneficial properties of wood including its resilience in earthquakes, its acoustics, structural strength and sustainability can be the domain of a new breed of professionals.”

Ticket to fly Local woman Ainslie Titterton was the winner of the Rotary Club of Wanaka Charitable Trust raffle. Ainslee was presented with the travel voucher prize by World Traveller director Ross McRobie, raffle coordinator Crawford Anderson and Rotary president Rosie Burridge yesterday.

So far this year Kahu Youth Trust, Mount Aspiring College, Hawea Flat School, Community Networks and Parenting4Life have benefitted from Rotary funding in Wanaka.

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Two primary schools, five day care centres, college students and businesses celebrated Red Nose Day yesterday by re-creating the shape of the iconic red nose. About 700 people joined Paper Plus Cromwell and former All Black Josh Kronfeld at Cromwell College for the event which will be featured in the Red Nose Day: Comedy for Cure Kids TV extravaganza on TV3 on Friday August 24.

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Tri nations ‘meat’ for test match For the past two years the Wedderburn Sharp Blacks have taken on Australia in the test match but next year Britain will also field a team to compete in the first tri-nations Retail Meat New Zealand butchery event.

“The rivalry developing in these test matches is intense,” Kim Doran

from Retail Meat New Zealand said. “It’s all good natured and there’s a great camaraderie developing between us and the Australian’s outside the match which can only be good for the industry.”

Nominations have opened and a trial will take place between the current Wedderburn

Sharp Blacks against a team of challengers.

The team will take on Australia and Britain in the test match which involves taking a side of beef and a lamb and turning it into a butchery display, all in a two hour timeframe.

The 2013 Tri-Nations will take place on March 9 in Wanaka.

Student house aids grant United Way charitable organisation held its annual Otago Donations Function at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin on Thursday August 9. Twenty-nine Otago charities were chosen as recipients of the $170,000 worth of grants, including Community Networks Wanaka.

The grant amounts given out are kept confidential, but all donations are to be used for operational costs. “It’s often easier for charities to get funding for purchasing equipment or other one-off items, than for day-to-day running costs,” United Way’s chief executive Don Oliver said. “That’s where we come in.”

The Otago Polytechnic’s 2011 Charity House project, which raised $80,000 of the fund donated, is a community collaboration where a house is built on campus by carpentry students under the guidance of their lecturers. Last year 23 businesses donated services and time to complete the interior finishes before the house was sold at auction. Now in its sixth year, the project has raised more than $440,000 for United Way to donate to Otago charities.

Events office update Councillors voted to include the new events office within the council’s organisational structure for next 12 months, after which the situation will be reviewed.

A part time employee will be appointed as a Commercial Events facilitator to work alongside the Arts and Events facilitor Jan Maxwell.

Together they will create the new Events Office. This option was decided on at the Council meeting held in Wanaka on August 14.

Having the office ‘inhouse’ means it will be relatively

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easy to establish and the new appointee will be able to develop strong relationships with existing council staff and be able to draw on community and industry experience and advice. The other option considered was to establish an events trust independent of the council.

The idea for an events office came from Shaping our Future. The events task force convenor Dave Roberts said he was happy with council’s decision. “I think it’s a very good idea,” he said.

Safe teen driving Statistics for the Wanaka area show in the past five years 76 percent of injury crashes which involved the driver being at fault were caused by drivers in the 15 to 19-year-old age bracket. With the first annual Burton High Fives at Snow Park this week, the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is urging parents to use its safe teen driver website to prepare teenage drivers for a safer trip up the mountain.

“The Safe Teen Driver website not only provides useful festival hazard advice to discuss with your teen, it also suggests some different ways to talk about the risks so they don’t think you’re over-reacting,” NZTA Southern Region Manager Access and Use Greg Allnut said. Tips for safe driving in the winter conditions include driving during daylight hours; being skid aware (maintain tyre traction by using higher gears when travelling uphill and a lower gear going downhill); and keeping a safe distance behind the car in front.

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wastebusters

Line up confirmed

Trashing technology Front yard guardian Matt Plant with some of the cellphones recycled at Wastebusters in the last week.

photo: sophie ward

Gina Dempster Recently I upgraded the cellphone I’d had for 13 years. I’d felt obliged to hide it in public for the last few years and it took five minutes and seven screens to send a text, but I couldn’t make myself let go of it until the CDMA network was closed down last month.

It’s a rare thing for a cellphone, television or computer to break down, usually they are obsolete long before that happens, making ewaste the world’s fastest growing waste stream.

Electronic appliances

contain precious metals and heavy metals which can cause toxic leachate in landfills and harm soils and groundwater.

It’s crazy to put e-waste in the landfill, but it costs money to recycle it responsibly.

We think the electronics companies should pay for e-waste to be recycled.

Sound like a pipedream? Well that’s what is happening in Australia, under a new product stewardship scheme.

Households and small businesses will be able to drop off their computers and televisions for free, and the scheme will be funded and run by the

Anna Coddington (pictured) has been announced to play at this year’s Willlowridge Wanakafest. Anna, who has performed with Fly My Pretties and Eru Dangerspiel, released her second solo album last year.

Festival coordinator Iona Saunders said Anna will be playing as part of the Lake Wanaka Wine and Food Fest and the event will be free to attend. “We are a

electronics industry.

New Zealand needs to catch up.

In the meantime, Wanaka has been leading the way in supporting our user-pays RCN e-Cycle depot. Our community has been recycling over 1.5 tonnes of e-waste per month! And here’s some good news for those, like me, forced to upgrade their cellphones recently.

Cellphone recycling is free – AND the proceeds from refurbing or recycling the phones go to Starship Hospital.

So bring in your old faithful to recycle, and feel good about the end of its life.

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charitable trust, and our goal is to provide a fun, accessible and unique festival experience,” she said.

Jody Direen has been confirmed to play after the street parade and entertainment will also be provided

by Martine FairclothHarding, Anna van Reil, Kid Rock, Liv McBride, Calico and the Wanaka Ukulele Orchestra during the long weekend.

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Elemental by dear Brian

Behaving badly

PHOTO: Gilbert van Reenen

Caroline Harker A new book by Brian Turner (pictured) and Gilbert van Reenen has been applauded on national radio three times in the last week. First Kim Hill ‘played favourites’ on Saturday with Brian Turner and on Tuesday it was reviewed in the morning by poet Harry Ricketts and in the afternoon by crime writer Vanda Symon.

Elemental is made up of poems and pictures from Central Otago and is divided into four parts: Earth, Fire, Water and Wind - hence the title. Brian has written the introduction where he, in true Turner style, criticises what is often termed ‘progress and development’.

“In recent years I’ve often been called an activist,” he writes.

“I see that as a compliment. Inactivity is not for me. I see little merit in endorsing the intensification

of more of the insensitive same.”

Brian and Gilbert have worked together for many years. “He often sends me poems before they have been

honed so I’ve got a feel for what he’s working at,” Gilbert said. The two men also go on many trips into the hills together. “Quite a neat dialogue goes on,” Gilbert said. Or in the words of Brian, “I take off for the hills to escape the rage of my neighbour’s mower savaging grass, to find some breathing space, and find the wonder is wonder hasn’t died, happiness beckons, and the wind in the tussock murmurs. And not before time.”

Keep It Up A farmer asked me if I was working and added he didn’t mean writing.

I said I was sawing and stacking wood, tidying the shed, pruning the hedge.

‘Is that work?’

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘keep it up.’

- brian turner

Local artist Gwenda Rowlands is delighted with the success of the Wanaka Creative Fibre Group’s project to raise money for the Dunedin neurological unit.

Gwenda and Diana Mechen knitted a cardigan and sold raffle tickets all over town raising nearly $1300 for the unit.

“It looked like it was going to be a dreary winter and it wasn’t at all,” Gwenda said.

“We met so many people with stories to tell.” Gwenda has her own stories – both her sons needed long-term

hospital treatment after accidents and one is now a tetraplegic.

“It’s so important to have a neurological support in Dunedin,” she said.

The raffle was won

by Sharon Mathias.

Sharon had a handknitting business in the 1980s. She had 30 outworkers and sold her garments to Keith Mathieson. “Knitting was a great hobby until I went into business,” she said. “After that I never knitted again.

But I love my new cardigan and know it is beautifully made. If I was still in business I would be happy to give Gwenda and Diana

Theft Several thefts on Monday August 6 were reported, including skis from a Mount Iron Drive address, an apple green aluminium stool from the Boa Boa Food Company and a mannequin from the Green Toad ski rental shop. A laptop was stolen on Tuesday August 7 from a Kings Drive address, and a burglary was reported on August 10 when wine and food were stolen from a Capell Avenue address at Lake Hawea.

Drink driving On Saturday August 11, a 56-year-old Lake Hawea resident blew 756 micrograms per litre and was apprehended for excess breath alcohol. A 29-yearold local male was also apprehended for excess breath alcohol after he blew 640 micrograms per litre.

Fundraiser for neurosurgery Caroline Harker

On Wednesday August 8 there was a report of indecent exposure by a male to a passing female motorist. The male, aged about 15-years-old, was described as Caucasian of medium build with blond hair.

On the same day a 27-year-old local male was arrested for assault on a doorman at the Water Bar. Police are also investigating an allegation of indecent assault at the Water Bar on Saturday, and a 23-year-old male was arrested for offensive behaviour at the same location.

A 16-year-old Cromwell youth was reported to Youth Aid for assault after a post match incident at the Upper Clutha Rugby Club on Saturday.

On Sunday August 12, police received a complaint of abuse from a resident on Russell Street from a youth attending the Kahu Youth Crib.

a job.”

The prize cardigan is made from natural and hand dyed wool and the buttons are made from deer antlers. “It’s lovely that it went to someone who appreciates the work,” Gwenda said.

The campaign to keep neurosurgery in Dunedin began in 2010 when 10,000 people marched through the city. It aims to raise $3 million to fund a chair in neurosurgery and set up a neurosurgery research unit at the University of Otago.

Project manager Irene Mosley said $2.5million has be raise to date.

If you have information on any crimes call 0800CRIMESTOPPER (0800555111).

Daffodils for Daffodil Day $10 per bunch of 10 fresh daffodils

Pre - Sale orders now being taken Contact Sue Saunders Volunteer Daffodil Day Coordinator

Phone 03 443 7442 The Cancer Society thanks you for your generosity and support.

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Blue Wanaka Montessori literally had a case of the blues last Friday while raising awareness and funds for children with congenital heart disease.

Children and teachers wore blue to support the @heart organisation and took part in a day of mini Olympics, sack racing, baking heart biscuits with blue icing and a run around a large heart shape on Kelly’s Flat reserve. The annual Blue Heart Day the centre holds was made more special this year because a child with the condition

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currently attends Wanaka Montessori, administrator Kim Little said.

Former All Black captain Tana Umaga is an ambassador for the group and the face of a national ‘scars are for fighters’ campaign, which acknowledges the estimated 12 babies born in New Zealand every week who will need heart surgery to

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survive. The ‘Blue Heart Baby’ term is used in reference to blue baby syndrome for infants born with heart defects.

Pictured in blue while baking biscuits are four year-olds Kate Asher, Madison Lovelock and Nico Pettit (tongue out).

Courses benefit business Wanaka residents have the opportunity to gain knowledge, and progress their business, with the Te Wananga o Aotearoa business courses on offer here. The fully funded courses suit people considering setting up as well as for those in an existing business.

“People enjoy the flexibility of the courses, as the classes meet just one night a week,” course tutor Mylrea Bell said. “Being able to fit study around work, business, children, sport and other activities is excellent.”

Jennie Taylor had already established her

Hawea based business Sweet Cheeks but was looking to expand her knowledge when she enrolled on the

was amazing to have the resources at my fingertips.”

Also on offer is the Certificate in Applied

The course helped give me some structure to my ideas. It was amazing to have the resources at my fingertips.

Certificate in Small Business Management.

“It really got me organised and focused,” Jennie said.

Former student Emilie Brosnahan agreed. “The course helped give me some structure to my ideas,” she said. “It

Business Growth and Development course targeting those in an existing business: students pick projects to work on that will move their business forward.

Graduate Alan Gillespie wrote a programme for improving the

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management of his hinds, and an operation and management systems manual for his farm as part of the course. “It gives me a lot of confidence if I am away from the farm,” he said. “It is a valuable document that I flick though from time to time.”

Mylrea has been teaching the courses since they first began in Wanaka in July 2004. “I love being able to secure national programmes here in Wanaka,” she said. “The people are so motivated. It’s great for all of us to keep moving one step on from our last achievement.”

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MACmonthly juniorschool Year 8 camp special In the past few weeks the Year 8 classes have been on camp: 8WT were first, followed by 8SD. The other two classes are still to come.

It went a little like this…

(Warning: this will be naming a few of the activities so it may spoil the surprise of camp.)

When we arrived at the turnoff to get to Berwick, the kids and the teacher

were dropped off and went on an hour long hike to let off a bit of steam. This walk included a bit of gorse and cliffs. After we arrived we did the normal things to settle in. If only we realised this would be the most rest we would get.

When we got up at 6:30am, we had breakfast and headed out to do the four rotations. For each rotation we did one activity for an hour or more. We

had lunch after the second rotation. After these, we did the night challenges.

One of them is the SOLO. You get stuck out at night on a track for an hour by yourself. It’s easy.

Just sleep.

There is much more to be said, but there is only so much that can be said in 200 words. Thanks for reading.

- Rory Mclean, Year 8

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seniorschool It is cross country week at MAC and Mr Hose is rubbing his hands together. If there is one thing he likes (other than his Saturday shave), it is watching his students beat their personal best times and of course each other. Countless students have been left gasping for air after completing the infamous Lismore Park course. It’s an assortment of steep challenging hills to burn the quads and long straights to test your cardio. In other words, it’s a MasterChef recipe for pain. Despite this, it is somewhat of a school tradition to get out there and give it a go. I’m afraid that may not be me: I think I pulled my hammy on the way to the fridge (it was worth it for the Tim Tams).

On the other side of the globe, the world’s crème de la crème of athletes have been acting similarly. More than 10,000 representatives from 205 nations have

been doing their utmost to achieve their goals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Haven’t the Kiwi team done fantastic?!

We’ve finished in 15th place with 13 medals, six of them gold. Not bad for a little pacific

who suffered a horrific injury after a fall in the women’s weightlifting?

For these athletes and many more like them, their Olympics were cut short in the blink of an eye. After years of dedication and hard

I think I pulled my hammy on the way to the fridge (it was worth it for the Tim Tams). country with a population of under 4.5 million and whose breaking news is a tea party in Ponsonby and a desperate lack of yeast-based spreads.

Congratulations to our athletes who have brought home the bacon.

I got thinking though, what about the ones who didn’t see out their dream? What about the likes of Manteo Mitchell who broke his tibia bone during the 1600m relay? Or Egypt’s Khalil Mahmoud K Abir Abdelrahman,

work a small slip sent their dreams painfully tumbling down. So I call on people as a whole to salute all our athletes, medals around their neck or not, and recognise their commitment and talent because in the end, life is all just a roll of the dice.

That’s my ramble over for now, be good to one another.

Ka Kite.

- Eden Brown, Year 11

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Final hoops night Champion team through to finals Tim Brewster Two time women’s A- g r a d e w i n n e r s Ecco Landscapes had a narrow four point win over MAC on Tuesday night to qualify for the finals of the Wanaka basketball club championships this Saturday. The team will play In Balance who defeated

Team Trout. Both the Men’s A and B grade finalists were decided last night with the results not available at the time of going to print.

Ecco are pictured from left to right starting at the back: Erika Gordon, Jill Austin, Donnelle Burrows, Carrie Berkey- O’Brien, Rachael O’Connell,

Kristi Gawn, Melina Paiere.

Wanaka Basketball Club finals night is held at the Mount Aspiring College gym. It kicks off at 4pm with the men’s B final, followed by the women’s final at 5.30pm and the men’s A final at 7pm.

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Cross country skiers from around New Zealand and the world are gathering for this weekend’s 17th annual Snow Farm Merino Muster.

The annual event commemorates the age-old tradition of sheep mustering in high country of the Southern Alps.

The mass start combines novices with international elite athletes choosing from three race distances with the 42km Merino Muster the main event followed by the 21km Snow Rake, and the 7km Straggle Muster short-distance race.

“This Merino Muster celebrates all that Snow Farm has to offer in one inclusive race. It is special because everyone can be involved and have a load of fun all in one

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big event,” Snow Farm general manager Jo Lynch said.

The names of the events are derived from traditional New Zealand farming phrases used

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to describe mustering time. For 150 years, sheep have grazed high in the fertile mountainsides of rugged Central Otago, until autumn each year when musterers locate and bring stock down to lower elevations to prevent them freezing in the winter cold and snow. The ritual often involved most of the town’s inhabitants and was referred to as the Merino Muster. This event features prominently in much of the region’s historical literature, and is often referred to as a rite of passage for many a rural communities’ young people.

As well as the individual races there will be a social team relay event and a “Mini” Muster for children under ten.

Olympics

Freeway Orchard Gary Anderson Harcourts Katwalk Fashions New World Nichols Garden Café Rainbow Tearooms Shell Service Station Visitor Centre - Mall and...

Makarora Tourist Centre, Sailz Lake Hawea and Tarras Country Store.

Aspiring Beginnings Early Learning Centre held their own Olympics last Thursday with events including shot put, javelin, gymnastics and races. Senior teacher Jen Rawson

told the Wanaka Sun there was great team spirit, participation and overall extraordinary effort by the children, and the opening ceremony went without

a hitch.

Pictured on the podium after the ‘horse race’ are (from left) Ryan Enoka, Ryan Coupe and Luka Cowan.

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editorial The local response to ugliness on the rugby field last weekend shows how much the attitude to the game has changed. Coaches talk about pointing players along the right path and bystanders are unanimous in saying uncontrolled aggression has no place in our school competitions. It’s a long way from the more traditional “toughen up” approach the game used to

No way should pivot irrigators compromise existing public access on unformed legal roads. We don’t have free public access to farmland, so why should farm activities be allowed to mess with our rights-of-way. Pivot irrigators are damn ugly anyway, unnatural, and typically add the obscene stench of dairying to our outdoor experience. Watch our paradise slowly disappear!

To the old blonde chick in the pubs molesting the young men...On behalf of all the old blonde chicks who are at home w the kids every weekend...YOU GO GIRLFRIEND! I think if U had ever written a book U were absolutely happy with, you’d never write another. The same probably goes for having children.

be known for, with punch-ups considered a regular part of on-field feistiness.

What made the incident more disturbing was the mismatch in ages of the two teams. Thanks to some shoddy financial management the ORFU has been unable to honour its commitment to subsidise travel for junior rugby, so the other teams refuse to travel leaving Wanaka teams with limited options. One of them is playing older teams who, unsurprisingly, knock them around a bit more.

If the ORFU continues to neglect the young country players wanting to be a part of the future of rugby their bank balance isn’t the only deficit they’ll be

Oh the irony! Pushed to get a classic old available bus-stop shelter on our road rather than the ugly albeit free Total Span ones. Kids come home moaning they didn’t get a nice new one! Give them 10 years to appreciate the aesthetic.

People using the Allenby park dog toilet facility (football pitch) you are being watched.

I suggest you start picking up your dog turds like the rest of us, particularly the lady who sits on the bench while your dog curls one out at the goal mouth. All it takes is the number from your dogs tag and a photograph

Over the yellow car game.ow Would you rather see a kid come home with a broken wrist from riding some jumps he built or in an alcohol induced coma?

The views expressed in the text board and in the Letters to the Editor are those of the author alone and not necessarily those of the Wanaka Sun.

worrying about.

Naomi: player of the day

Local birdlife

Huge thanks to Naomi Shields who, despite being 30 years out of her dental nursing career, made a sterling job of replacing our son Lachlan’s tooth on the spot at the rugby field after an bit of an unfortunate incident at the end of the Upper Clutha U16 vs Cromwell U18 game here on Saturday.

Naomi’s quick thinking in repositioning and then holding the tooth in place for a very long time, coupled with Steve Brett’s rapid arrival to meet us at the dental surgery, have hopefully resulted in Lachlan being able to keep his tooth. Upper Clutha’s skill and fitness won them the match. However, the situation at the match brought to the fore the high level of professionalism and sportsmanship that is inherent in the Upper Clutha management, coaches and players.

Thank you, and gold medals to you all!

After reading in the Wanaka Sun about people’s gardens being visited by tui recently, I realised the local birdlife was obviously hungry. I put out some fruit (banana and apple) in the trees around my house, and managed to have the entire neighbourhood’s population of Silvereyes in my trees within ten minutes. Thirty or so birds spent the whole afternoon coming and going from my trees, greedily gorging themselves.

Five other species, including bellbirds, also visited and nibbled at the fruit.

Putting fruit out for native birds during winter seems like an easy way local residents can attract birds to their garden and provide a food source, rich in sugar and vitamins, for the smaller birds who may be heading into their breeding season soon.

Mylrea Bell Wanaka

Petrina Duncan Wanaka

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Too close for comfort Driving home from work last Tuesday night at 6pm, about to exit the Albert Town bridge from the Wanaka end, thinking both cars had stopped to give way and would continue to do so - how wrong I was! Mr driver of the dark green Nissan Bluebird sedan - what were you thinking? In my opinion had you exercised a little more patience and less arrogance and continued to wait this would not have happened, instead you decide to pull out from behind the van only to discover my headlights coming right at you. Having nowhere to go, you then pull right out and end up right angles to the bridge totally blocking my exit - thank goodness I have good brakes.

I then put my lights on to full beam to show you my displeasure only to see two startled passengers and you trying to find reverse! All I can say to you is you have very brave passengers and remember that five letter word sorry goes a long way with a lady driver.

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Sweet Onion & Ginger chutney from Pirate Pickles at the Wanaka farmers market from 4pm Thursdays Spencer House Mall

Heaps of hats and other cosy things at artisans studio, 56 Ardmore st , to keep you warm now the snow is truly here !

Caravan and Campervan repair, design and fabrication. Contact Steve at Overland Engineering 022 0974596

Pilates studio classes available at Core Strength Pilates. Lots of times and individual support available. Call 443 1711 to book now.

Mahe drysdale was once a novice rower. Come give rowing a go. 9.30am Saturday 8th September. Year 9 and up. All adults. At Showgrounds.

Counselling and life coaching with fully qualified, experienced professional. Phone Lauren 021777561 or email lauren@talkitthrough.co.nz

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Awesome 100% made in Wanaka NZ Kiwis & Pukeko soft toys at Artisans NOW

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Masses of good quality wooden coat hangers. 50c each. 034435573 / 021660171.

Nature Sway baby hammock $100 Baby Bjorn green with back support $40. Call 4432002 Garage sale Moving-back-to-England sale part two! Furniture, homewares, kidstuff, vintage etc. Saturday 11am-2pm.

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Large older style philips colour tv & cabinet with glass doors, wrks with freeview. FREE. phn 4436165 FOCAL POINT celebrating 150 yrs of current events photos of Otago on display at Lake Wanaka Centre Open 9am-1pm weekdays. Entry Free.

courses Hero’s Journey Workshop tonight, 16th, in Wanaka. How do you get to be a hero in your own life? For writers, or for anyone wanting to understand life patterns.

Rm 29 Mount Aspiring College, 5.30-9pm $35. www.jilliansullivan.co.nz, ph Jillian 021398522.

Character and dialogue workshop – a fun, productive workshop for writers at any stage. Next Thursday, August 23rd.

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death notice Dunwell, Sydney John Davis (81) of Wanaka, formerly of Nelson, passed away peacefully on August 7, 2012 at Dunstan Hospital, Clyde. Loved Husband of Wendy, loved Father of Richard & Adrian and Father-in-Law to Chise & Rachel.

Grandfather to eight grandchildren who loved him dearly. He will be deeply missed by all. A service to celebrate Sydney’s life will be held at “The Venue” cnr Cardrona & Orchard Rds, Wanaka at 1pm on Friday August 17 followed by interment in Wanaka Cemetery. Photos/memories/video tributes can be posted at Sydney Dunwell on Facebook, or messages can be sent to the Dunwell Family, 213 Stone Street, Wanaka 9105. Ph 03-443-1482

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Wanaka Bowls Results w/e 12/08/12: Monday Edgewater Trophy 1 D Urquhart, R Mathewson, A Stretch, 2 S Nyhof, B Holmes, A Turnbull, 3 J Barrow, M Barnett, C Scurr Wednesday Triples 1 D Studholme, D Barnes, A Nicholls, 2 D Ollerenshaw, L Pannett, R Templeton, 3 G Godby, J Smith, B Hamilton. Thursday Pairs 1 H Badger & J Madison, 2 K Davey & C Landsborough, 3 E Herbert & J Gale. Friday Progressive Skips 1 I Brown 2 R Davey 3 B Hodge, 3 1 S Landsborough 2 J Barton, 3 B Holmes. Leads 1 N Dippie 2 G Russell, 3 D Brown. Saturday Studholme Memorial Round 19 Meadowstone, 6pts; Bremner Park, 5pts; Mt Albert & Rippon Lea 4pts. Round 20 Meadowstone & Scurr Heights 6pts; Rippon Lea & Pembroke 5 pts. Standings after 20 rounds. Meadowstone 67pts; Bremner Park 64pts; Scurr Heights 59pts; Rippon Lea 54pts. Pembroke 51pts; Mt Albert 48 pts; Beacon Point 45 pts; Hawea 31 pts. Business House Competition Tuesday 1 Mitre 10, 2 Bowl’m Over, 3 Lions Wednesday 1 Gots, 2 Trail Enders, 3 Haggis Thursday 1 D Sarginson, R McNeilly, K Allison, 2 Rotary, 3 A Russell, P. Davidson, J. Russell.

Tarras Golf results: Men’s Purvis Cup and

Putting-James Lucas 97-30-67, 34 putts; Simon Maling 79-9-70, 28; Murray Hyndman 96-25-71, 28; Ken Galloway 85-14-71, 34; Tom Moore 819-71, 32; John Dawson 83-10-73, 29. Tarras Coffee Shop Best 5th Shot on No.7 Barbara Kane Lake Hawea golf results: Mt Maude Stableford 12/8/12 Men 1 R Johnston 36, 2 D Sullivan 35, 3 G Haggart 31, Ladies 1 B Stevenson 29 Twos B Stevenson no.5 Nearest the Pin Birdies/Net Eagles No.15 Jackpot 2 next w-end.

Wanaka Golf Club Tuesday Ladies Bradley Nuttall GNZ Medal & Putting Div1 1 Annette Mantell, 67 ocb 2 Anne Moffat, 67 3 Ann Brown, 67 Putting Yev McCarthy, 28 putts. Div2 1 Susie Rankin, 66 2 May Moffat, 68 3 Kay Todd, 70 Putting Anne Dodds, 31 putts. Div3 1 Lorraine Thorpe, 74 2 Carolyn Wallace, 75 ocb 3 Avril Templeton (Tarras), 75. Div4 1 Pamela DeBeer, 66 2 Margaret McKenzie, 68 3 Lynn Howson, 72, Wednesday Men Edward Gibbon Medal Div1 1 Graeme Barbara, 66 2 Stuart Corser (Peninsula), 67 3 John Templeton, 68 ocb 4 Matt Kenealy (Titirangi), 68. Div2 1 Logan Harris, 66 ocb 2 Bill Coupland, 66 3 Warren Sutton, 67 ocb 4 John Hogan, 67 Thursday 9 Hole Ladies Stableford 1

Thursday 16 August to Wednesday 22 August 2012

Sandra Harris, 20 2 Ann Trevathon,19 3 Stephanie Still, 15 Saturday Ladies Stableford and Nett STBFD 1 Yev McCarthy, 37 2 Lesley Boyde, 36 3 Anne McKenzie, 36. Nett 1 Bev De Beer Lamont, 68 2 May Moffat, 69 3 Anne Moffat, 70.

Saturday Men Collings Trophy. Div1 1 Robyn Read, 40 2 Rex Lambert, 40 3 Brett Gilbert, 39.

Div2 1 Dave Butel of Hanmer Springs, 43 2 Chris MacFie, 42 3 Peter Child, 40

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Bridge results: Pembroke Pairs 3. North/ South:- Boyd & Nan Ottrey 65.00% 1. Lynne Fegan, Heather Wellman 64.10% 2. Gerarda Herlihy, Deirdre Lynch 58.85% 3 East/West:- Errol Kelly, Jenny Pryde 64.62% 1. Margaret Hunt, Ken Muir 63.97% 2. Sherril Harries, Jill Millar 60.64% 3 Friday Bridge August 10th. North/South:Noeline Goldsbrough, Freda Ryder 59.03% 1. Jenny Muir, Madeleine Reveley 56.94% 2.

Gerarda Herlihy, Deirdre Lynch 52.78% 3. East/ West:- Ann Paterson, Pam Taylor 61.90% Pamela Buchanan, Lesley Hook 57.94% 2. Bridget Rennie, Betty Swift 54.94% 3. Lindis Pairs 9 August: North/South:- Lynne Fegan, Sherril Harries 63.57% 1. Judy Muir, Ann-Louise Stokes 50.00% 2. East/West:- Kay Ross, Joan Wigg 57.86% 1 Annie Freeman, Penny Rogers 50.71% 2.

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Half marathon champ Wanaka has its latest national titleholder following the New Zealand half marathon championships in Palmerston North last weekend. Oska Inster-Baynes, 21, won the event by 12 seconds in 1:09.13 to claim his first win in the event after placing fifth last year. Oska credited his coach for the past 18 months, Val Burke, for the win by providing an “awesome game plan which I stuck to for the first time ever,” he said.

Prior to the race he was not considered a serious contender by event organisers with no mention of him in pre-race publicity. “I quite enjoyed being the underdog. I’m quite young so I’m still getting my confidenceuparoundthemore experienced runners, so I just quietly went about my business when the race started.” The plan was to maintain a steady pace throughout the race and by the 19km mark Oska’s new found discipline paid

off with the others runners dropping away, enabling him to stay in front for the last two kilometres.

Val said getting a national title is a great reward for Oska’s hard work as he is a strong role model as well as a good athlete. “He’s unique; he’s always helping out the younger kids with running and acts as a mentor, so it’s not all about him. It’s great to see him win,” she said. The result finishes off a successful road running season for Oska with wins in the Dunedin and Southern Lakes half marathon events. With the Olympics dominating sports coverage for the past two weeks it’s unsurprising that his long term goals include national representation, a desire he has had since he started running competitively at school in 2009.

“It is my ultimate goal in eight year’s time when I’m older and more structured to run the Olympic marathon.”

WHAT’S THE CRAIC THIS WEEK...

Thursday 16th August

LIVE MUSIC & QUIZ

Quiz Night and Danny and JR

4pm til late

Quiz starts at 8pm then the face melting awesomeness of Danny and JR til late.

Friday 17th August

Mike Kennedy

LIVE MUSIC 4pm til late

Acompanied by Gordon, Mike K will be rocking his guitare n harmonica til late.

Saturday 18th August

LIVE MUSIC

All Blacks vs Australia & Cody Tucker

4pm til late

Live music from 7pm, Rugby kicks off 10pm. Live music at half time and after the game.

Sunday 19th August

Open Mic and Jam session

LIVE MUSIC 4pm til late

Come in and get down with other local musos. Hosted by Ben and all are welcome.

Tuesday 21th August

New Talent Tuesdays

LIVE MUSIC 4pm til late

Come down and see what new talent Wanaka has to offer.

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Friday to Saturday

LIVE MUSIC

More Live Music !

7pm till 9pm

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Winter Olympics game on Tim Brewster With its World Cup standard half pipe opening early last week, Cardrona Alpine Resort is set to host an estimated 120 skiers and snowboarders from 24 nations as they compete in the first event of the official Winter Olympic qualifications for Sochi, Russia, in 2014.

Olympic medallists, World Cup champions and Winter Games 2011 medallists join some of New Zealand’s top talent on the startlist for the FIS half pipe event from August 20-26 which is this year’s sole World Cup stop in the Southern Hemisphere.

Strong New Zealand contenders include Wanaka’s acclaimed freeskiing brothers, Jossi, Byron and Beau James Wells who will be joined by Lyndon Sheehan and Toby Dixon. In the women’s event locally based skiers Janina Kuzma, Brittany Hawes and XGames slopestyle competitor Rose Battersby will take on a strong international field. The halfpipe

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competition for skiers is a newly introduced Olympic event and provides anopportunity for New Zealand skiers to earn some points with a home advantage. Female snowboarders Kendall Brown and Rebecca Sinclair have a particularly competitive field in their event with nine of the top ten Olympic riders

and 6.7m high Olympic half-pipe will be open for the event.

The pipe is one of only a few of its size operating in the Southern Hemisphere this season.

“It’s taken a bit longer this year to get the pipe fully operational because the grooming staff had to travel long distances to gather

Without large natural snowfalls it takes a lot of man hours to push the 20,000 cubic metres of snow needed to build the Olympic halfpipe. on the start list including gold, silver and bronze medallists. Kendall’s brother Mitch, James Hamilton, Ben Stewart and Hamish Bagley will also take on some highly rated international riders in the men’s competition.

Large amounts of snow have been pushed into place by two groomers (pictured) over the past two weeks to ensure the 18m wide, 160m long

natural snow from wind pockets and push it back to the halfpipe.

As halfpipes have grown over the years so has the amount of snow needed to build them. Without large natural snowfalls it takes a lot of man hours to push the 20,000 cubic metres of snow needed to build the Olympic halfpipe,” Cardrona operations manager Gary Husband said.

Thursday 16 August to Wednesday 22 August 2012